IPMETRICS(1)IPMETRICS(1)NAMEipmetrics - convert an Interpress metrics master to other forms
SYNOPSISipmetrics [ -c compositionSystem ] [ -d destinationLibrary ] file ...
DESCRIPTION
Ipmetrics executes the Interpress metric masters given on the command
line and converts the results to the metrics formats for various compo‐
sition systems. Currently the system will produce metrics for Troff,
TeX, or a generic system.
The following options are understood:
-c is used to set which composition system the output is for. Cur‐
rent arguments are troff, tex, toc, and generic. ``toc'' means
table of contents.
-d option specifies the final destination of the output metrics
files. This program doesn't place the metrics files there imme‐
diately, it uses this option to help generate a shell script to
do the installation. The default for this option is site depen‐
dent.
In other than ``toc'' mode, the standard input is a description of the
mapping from the font names in the metric master to target font names.
The standard-input is token-based where tokens are seperated by white
space. A "#" in column one (1) indicates a comment. The first token
on the standard input must be "device" followed by the name of the tar‐
get device. Each line after that contains the description of one font.
Each of these lines has five (5) tokens in it. The first three are the
full universal name of the font, the next is the name as it's known to
the destination composition system and the last token names a file that
will contain the mapping specification for the font. That file will
specify how to translate from the metric master's character set (usu‐
ally XC1-1-1) to that of the destination system. Note that a font in
the metrics master can be named multiple times to create several logi‐
cal fonts for one physical font. Example:
# this is a commment
device 8044
Xerox XC1-1-1 TroffClassic R troffClassic.map
Xerox XC1-1-1 TroffMathExtra RN romanNumerials.map
Xerox XC1-1-1 TroffMathExtra XX xerox-eXtra.map
The *.map files are used to map between XC1-1-1 and the destination
system. Each line should specify a different character in the 16 bit
character space. The first token specifies the high-order eight bits
in octal and the second token the low-order eight bits (again in
octal). The third byte specifies the Troff ascender/descender informa‐
tion and the rest of the line specifies various names for that charac‐
ter. Example:
#char (a|de)sender alias
0 041 2 !
0 042 2 "
$LIB/fonts/* fonts *.map mapping files
SEE ALSO
Xerox Font Interchange Standard, XNSS 238512
The Interpress Toolkit manual,
dipress(1),
troff(1)BUGS
Fuzzyness about the nature of what the DVI -> Interpress converter
wants make the TeX mode less than perfect. Fuzzyness about the "easy"
property of a master makes handling sizes non-uniform.
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